Environment

Australian bees threatened

Posted on: Fri 10 Jan 2020

Bees contribute to the pollination of nearly three quarters of the plants that produce ninety per cent of the world’s food.

But bees around the world face serious threats.

For Australian Bees this threat comes in the form of exotic bees.

Manu Saunders, Research Fellow from the University of New England, joins Breakfast to gain the publics’ help in identifying bees in Australian backyards before they become established.

 

 

Produced by Zoe Kounadis and Tom Mann

Image source: Waugsberg (CC BY 3.0)

 

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